Angel Lai

Biophysical chemist.
Pittsburgh Penguins enthusiast.
Street food addict.

[Angel Lai @_AngelLai]

Sh*t happens...
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I’m sure most scientists will tell you that experiments seldom go exactly how you planned them
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Remember the samples for our study that came from my blood? Our lab tech had an oops moment (happens… https://t.co/2bKItpynKr

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Lab hack
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Ventured into the wet lab for the first time in months and spotted this genius hack by our clever RA. Not sure if other labs do this too, but binder clips are so much cheaper than pipette… https://t.co/WQTiuzanwy

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Clinic duties!
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One of my favourite parts of this job is going to the cardiology clinic for 3-4 hours on Thursday afternoons to see patients
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How did this doctor (PhD, not MD!) end up with clinic duties at a… https://t.co/o9nAV4hX2Y

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tfw you are the sample
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I recruited myself for our study, and had my blood drawn last week. It was a very strange experience to be holding test tubes of my own blood in one hand (they were still warm!), and… https://t.co/ybZiknmc95

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Repurposing some of my old code, and I want to kick my past self for naming things like “input1” or “data”. If it weren’t for my sporadic comments, I would never figure out what any of this does 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Learning how to read ECGs
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Another thing to add to my list of things I never though I would learn to do!
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I've spent the last few weeks going through patient ECGs and learning how to read them. They're way more… https://t.co/O7Z247Dj1w

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You know you’re tired when it’s 10am and you only just realize that you’ve been walking around with your pants on backwards all morning. It’s only Monday 😩

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Pretty excited about the new kaggle competition. It’s like it was made for my fellow chemists/NMR spectroscopists!
https://t.co/z13BuHEDwk

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Electrophysiology 101
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Having never taken an anatomy course (or much bio tbh), there's quite a bit of basic knowledge I need to teach myself for this job. I'm working in the cardiology department now, so I figured… https://t.co/rAtwaZg76I

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@marine_sci_john Thank you!

[Angel Lai @_AngelLai]

An update of sorts

It's been about a year since I finished my PhD, and almost 2 months since I've started my new job. Lots of people have been asking what I'm doing now, but I still can't really talk about it… https://t.co/tdI8oIdmY5

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Non-Newtonian fluids in space!!

[David Saint-Jacques @Astro_DavidS]

Strange things happen with honey when you remove gravity. #DareToExplore

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Changing a gas cylinder for the incubator for the biologists today. This is the closest thing to chemistry I’ve done in about a year (other than baking and making ice cream) 😂

...and I have a PhD in chemistry 😅

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@FinlayA91 At a vineyard! I highly recommend this one 😅

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Decided to clean up some of my old files and found a bunch files named “https://t.co/rZ6f6dObtn”, “test2.txt”, etc. Ah good old learning-to-code days 😂

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Good thing I don’t have to do helium fills anymore! PSA by @uOttawaNMR
https://t.co/B14KxNXZNR

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Hard to beat the feeling when you write a new chunk of code and it runs the first time with no bugs 🙌🏻

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I just walked past a man holding what looks to be a 2L bag of his own urine. Working in a hospital is.... interesting 🤨

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@ksingh122 It’s my new (shared) office! And thanks! I think I’ve always preferred finding my own way, even if it’s a little scarier

[Angel Lai @_AngelLai]

No postdoc?

Pretty much THE most common question I was asked during my job search

And to be completely honest, I tried this path for a brief moment. I applied for some interesting… https://t.co/ol79SAs9Yj